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Peadar Tóibín TD

Profile

Peadar Tóibín, a former Deputy Mayor of
Navan was elected in TD for Meath West in 2011. Peadar is a graduate and in
Economics and Politics from UCD and a Postgraduate in Enterprise from the
Michael Smurfit School of Business, UCD.

Before being elected TD Peadar was a
self-employed Management Consultant operating in the enterprise sector in
Ireland and Scotland.

Peadar was part of the team that researched
and authored the Sinn Féin Jobs Plan – Enterprise Policy for the 21st Century http://www.sinnfein.ie/contents/24709.
He is also part of the Sinn Féin Economics Committee that contributes to the
party’s budgetary policy. Peadar is a member of the Sinn Féin Uniting Ireland
Committee which is developing and implementing a strategic campaign to bring
about full Irish Independence.

Peadar has been to the fore in defending
worker’s rights in Tara Mines and also participants of the Old Darnley Lodge sit-in. He has been to the fore in the campaign to institute strong employee rights
nationally. He published legislation in support of stronger JLC structures and
separately legislation that would promote stronger Employee Rights in the under
regulated area of redundancy. Peadar has also published legislation that would
bring about the end of Upward Only Rents.

He is the Sinn Féin representative on the
British Irish Parliamentary Assembly and a current member of the Sinn Féin Ard
Comhairle.

Local Groups and Organisations

Peadar is founder and Cathaoirleach of the
Save Navan Hospital Campaign, which since 2010 has so far successfully defended
the hospital from many FF/FG/Lab cuts. In fighting for a fully functional
hospital to serve the people of Meath the campaign has mobilised 10,000 and
separately 6,000 people on to the streets of Navan.

Peadar is founder of the Gleann na Bóinne
Greenway Development Campaign which seeks to create a complete walk along the
banks of the Boyne from source to estuary bringing together internationally
recognised heritage attractions such as Trim Castle, Tara, Newgrange, the
Battle of the Boyne site and more.

Peadar is also the founder of Meath
Community Against Cuts, An Euro Gaelach and Irish Emigrants Speak Up.